Display-rack.



No. 789,950. I v Q PATEN'IE'ID SEPT. 29,.1903.

C. M. TURNER & H. LYONS.

DISPLAY RACK.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 17, 1903. N0 MODEL. 2 SHEETS-SHEET'I.

Witlgessesz llgvelgtor No. 739,950. PATENTED SEPT. 29 1903.

' 0. M. TURNER & H. LYONS.

DISPLAY RACK.

APPLIUATION FILED JAN. 17. 1903. N0 MODEL.

2 SHEETS-SHEB1' 2.

\V i TLQQSSCSI UNIT D STATES Patented September 29, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

DISPLAY-RACK."

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 739,950, dated September 29, 1903. Applioatioufiled January 17, 1903. Serial No. 139,472. -(No model.)

1'0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that We, CHARLES M. TURNER and HUGH LYONS, citizens of the United States, residing at the city of Lansing, in the county of Ingham and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Display-Racks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in display-racks. It relates particularly to racks for the display of clothing. It is usual in a clothing-house to pile the garments upon counters or tables, one garment upon another. When thus arranged, in order to display the goods or to inspect the style, color,

or material it is necessary to pull the par ticular garment desired from the pile, which pulls and stretches it out of shape and disarranges the whole pile. Further, the garments of a suit are placed in different parts of the store.

The objects of our invention are, first, to provide a display-rack for garments in which the style, color, and material of the same may be inspected without removing the same from the rack; second, to provide a display-rack for clothing in which the garments are held in the most desirable manner to retain theirshape, all are easily accessible, and may be quickly removed from or replaced upon the rack; third, to provide an improved rack for the display or clothing embodying the features above stated which is simple and comthe following specification.

pact and all parts of thegarments are in convenient relation.

Further objects relating to structural details will appear from the detailed description to follow.

We accomplish the objects of our invention by the devices and means described in The invention is clearly defined and pointed out in the claims.

' Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail View taken on line 3 3 of Fig. 1, showing the garmenthanger and its relation to its supportingstandard. Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail view taken on line 4 4 of Fig. 1, showing the pivoting of the support at the bottom. Fig. 5 is anenlarged detail view of the hanger D with a skirt-supporter in connection.

In the drawings-the sectional views are taken looking in the direction of the little arrows at the ends of the section-lines, and similar letters of reference refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the lettered parts of the drawings, the uprights A are supported on suitable bases A A. Secured to the bottom of the uprights A are cross-pieces B, between which the lower ends of the upright bars, standards, or supports D are pivoted. On the upper end of the uprights A are crosspieces 0, which embrace the upper ends of the standards D and guide the same. The standards D are arranged in series and pivotally secured by pivot-pins e through the cross-pieces B. The upper ends of the stand ards D are embraced, as above stated, by the cross-pieces O, which retain them in anupright position and permit them to be swung back and forth upon the pivot-pins e.

Secured to the standards toward the top are the coat-hangers D, upon which a coat may be placed, and, if desirable, the coat may be buttoned around the standard, which holds it in a desirable position, so that the same is not injured.

Spacing-blocks d are provided at the top of the standards or supports D to keep them separated from each other a proper amount, so that the garments are not permitted to come into contact with each other.

When it is desired to remove any particular garment from the rack, the standards may be separated at that point and the garments easily removed, the guides at the top being long enough to permit of such a separation.

It is apparent that all of the garments upon the rack are individually supported, and any particular one may be removed without disturbing the others, also that the style, color, and material may be inspected by prospective purchasers without taking the garment from the rack by simply tipping the adjacent standards away from it.

To one of the uprights A we secure shelving F, upon which vests and trousers may be placed in proximity to the coats.

When the rack is intended for the display of ladies suits, we secure spring-arms H to the under side of the garment-support D. The hand of the skirt may be buttoned about these arms, and the skirt is then held in a distended position for full display and at the same time is supported in the most approved manner.

We have illustrated and described our improved display-rack in the form preferred by us on account of the econonlyin construction. We are aware, however, that it is capable of very great variation in structural details without departing from our invention.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In adisplay-rack, the combination of the uprights 'A provided with suitable bases; cross-pieces B and O secured to said uprights; a series of standards or supports D pivotally secured between said cross-pieces B and having their upper ends embraced by the said cross-pieces O, coat-hangers D on said supports D; spacing-blocks d between said supports, coasting for the purpose specified.

2. In a display-rack, the combination of a frame; a series of standards pivotally supported at their lower ends and adapted to swing in substantially the same plane; a guide for the upper ends of said standards; suitable garment-hangers on said standards, and spacing-blocks between said standards, for the purpose specified.

3. In a display-rack, the combination of a frame; a series of standards pivotally supported at their lower ends and adapted to swing in substantially the same plane; a guide for the upper ends of said standards; and suitable garment-hangers on said standards, for the purpose specified.

In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals in the presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES M. TURNER. [L. s] HUGH LYONS. [L. s.]

Witnesses:

GEO. II. VAN BUREN, D. E. BATES. 

